Seated within an elaborate room, the Virgin Mary looks away from her book on the reading lectern, startled by the sudden entrance of the archangel Gabriel. He holds a scroll with the words Ave gracia plena (“Hail [Mary], full of grace”). Above, God the Father sends the infant Jesus bearing a cross toward the Virgin, preceded by the dove of the Holy Spirit. They descend in the direction of the Virgin. The enclosed garden emphasizes her virginity, and the single white lily placed in an elaborate pottery jar symbolizes her purity.

Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of French Gothic Tapestries. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1928. no. 1, p. 17.

Loan Exhibition of Religious Art for the Benefit of the Basilique of the Sacré-Cœur of Paris, at the galleries of Jacques Seligmann & Company, Inc., March-April 1927. New York: Jacques Seligmann & Co., 1928. pl. VII.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Seventy-Sixth Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year 1945." Annual Report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 76 (1946). p. 13, ill. on frontispiece.

Frantz, James H. "The Annunciation Tapestry in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the International Gothic Style in Early Franco-Flemish Tapestries." Master's thesis, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1972. pp. 3–28.

Cleveland Museum of Art and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon. Art from the Court of Burgundy: The Patronage of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless 1364-1419, edited by Stephen Fliegel, and Sophie Jugie. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2004. no. 101, pp. 262–63.